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vre-hub / reana-jupyterlab-extension

Reana JupyterLab plugin
https://vre-hub.github.io/docs/extensions/reana-jupyterlab/
Apache License 2.0
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[Packaging | License] - Add a license to the project #3

Closed garciagenrique closed 2 months ago

garciagenrique commented 3 months ago

After having investigated and getting familiarised with

rubenperezm commented 3 months ago

A permissive free software license should be used (Apache License 2.0 seems a good choice)

garciagenrique commented 3 months ago

A permissive free software license should be used (Apache License 2.0 seems a good choice)

Any scenario in where a copyleft license could be useful or needed ?

Also, are you familiarised with the re-licensing of a repository / project ? Please investigate under which circumstances this can be done and by whom.

rubenperezm commented 3 months ago

Any scenario in where a copyleft license could be useful or needed ?

Permissive permits proprietary derivative works. If we want our project to be 100% free (and guarantee that anyone who uses this code to make their code open), we may use a copyleft license (e.g., GNU GPL).

Also, are you familiarised with the re-licensing of a repository / project ? Please investigate under which circumstances this can be done and by whom.

It depends on the original license and the final license. The original license of the extension template is BSD (permissive), so it could be done. With copyleft licenses this would be more difficult. In addition, when we use the copier command in the tutorial, it creates the license with the "extension author name" (me), so I think I can modify the license.

garciagenrique commented 3 months ago

It depends on the original license and the final license. The original license of the extension template is BSD (permissive), so it could be done. With copyleft licenses this would be more difficult. In addition, when we use the copier command in the tutorial, it creates the license with the "extension author name" (me), so I think I can modify the license.

In general, as far as the author + the maintainer and active collaborators agreed, a relicense can be performed under any situation.

Apache 2.0 is a very good choice, but I wanted you to go through the process of thinking about the different possibilities. Well Done @rubenperezm !